Refrigerator



VR'EFRGERrcroR Filed July l5, 1925 Patented Dec. 29,l 1925.

UNITED STATES FAY T. RODGERS.'OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

REFRIGERATOR.

Application filed July 13, 1925. Serial No. 43,135.

T o all wh om it. may concern.'

Be it known that I. Fav T. Romans, a

citizen of the United YStates, residing at Memphis, in the county of Shelby and the State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ltcfrigerzr tors, of which the following is a full, cleai', and exact description, such as will enable anyone skilled in' the art to make and use the saine.- l

This invention relates to refrigerators having ice containers, arranged in either or both ends thereof, and has especial relation to the shape, arrangement and disposition of the ice containers within the refrigerator.

It is of ext-renie importance in refrigerators, that advantage be taken of every opportunity to promote the circulation of air in contact with the cooling medium, usually ice, carried in these containers, and numerous attempts have been made and are being made, to devise means whereby this he induced by may be accomplished. Heretofore in attempting to promote this circulation, tubes have been passed through the containers 1n an endeavor to give more surface of contact of the air with the refrigerant.

The objects of my invention are,

First, to provide means whereby a large surface area may be exposed to t e air in the refrigerator.

Second, to provide means for inducing circulation of the air in Contact with thev surface of the refrigerant container and of the refrigerant, and

Third, to reduce the bulk and weight of the refrigerant, that must be handled at any one time.

I accomplish the first and third of these ob'ects by subdividing the refrigerant container into a pluralit of containers, the sum total of which wi l makeup the neces' sary size of container, and by separating these containers so that the air may circulate around, over, under and between them; and I accomplish the second of these objectsvby dis osing these containers at an angle or wit a certain amount of dip from the horizontal whereby circulation of the air will gravity. In the drawings: Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation on the line I-I of Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the arrow showing the arrangement of .a plurality of containers within one end of a refrigerator casing.

Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation on the line II-II of Fig. 1.

Referring now to the drawings, in which the various parts are indicated by numerals, 1 is a refrigerator casing, preferably double walled, with insulating material therebetween. 2, 3 and 4 are refrigerant containers slidably mounted within this casing on angle iron sup orts 5. which supports eX- tend from the ront to the back of the cas'- ing. 6 is a door through which access may he had to these containers, and also through which cach of them may be removed for refilling or other purposes as maybe desired. T are handles for withdrawing the container. 8. 9 and 10 are drain valves the location of which determines the water level in the various containers, where, as is ordinarily the case, ice is used as the refrigerant.

The drain valve 8 is disposed to dri into a funnel 11 and this funnel again into a the containers 2 and 3 are so placed that the side of the container which is adjacent the end of the casing 1 is lower than the side which is disposed toward the open part of the refrigerator, and these two containers are preferably each made with its top parallel to the bottom, thus disposing these containers so that each is downwardly inclined toward the end of thi refrigerate The container 4 and the guideways therefor may be similarly disposed but I prefer to place t e guide-ways for this container on the saine level and to make that edge of the container which is to be disposed adjacent the end wall of the refrigerator lower than the other side, so that the top of this container will be parallel to the bottom of the container above it, althouh the ottom of it is horizontally disposed? The containers and the pan beneath the lower one are preferably disposed with the bottom of one. uniformly spaced away from the top of the next lower one and these spaces are also preferably of equal size.

or slide? In use, the containers are withdrawn from the refrigerator and tilled witlrice, or icev and salt if it be so desired, and then replaced in the refrigerator. Being subdivided, and comparatively slnallfthey may be much more readily handled than a single bulky container' could be. After being replaced in the refrigerator the warmer air along the top of the refrigerator is cooled and drops downward being caused by the inclination of the containers to set up a circulating movement toward the end of the refrigerator casing,` and thence downwardand thence away from the end .of the said casing, and over the Surface of the -water in the-drip pan 13 into the body portion of the refrigerator. Likewise the air between the various containers issinlilarly cooled and a Similar circulation set up.

. It will of course, be evident that while l have shown tbree containers. two onlyv mayl be used: or if the refrigerator is a large one, eren nun-e containerl than Shown, may be used` the angle of inclination may be. varied and various details of construction may be modified as may be necessary or advantaeeous.

Having' now fully deacribed lny invention, what l claini isz-- 1. Means for cooling a refrigerator, eoinprising'a plurality of refrigerant containers, disposed one "above the other and spaced apart, the bottoni of any container' and the top of the container below being downwardly inclined in substantially parallel planes whereby inclined channels are provided to induce air flow between said containers.`

t2. Means for cooling a refrigerator, oom-y prising a plurality of refrigerant containers, dispoaedone above the other and spaced apart. the bottoni of any container', and the top of the container below being downwardly inclined in the saine directitni, whereby in clined channels are provided to induce air flow between said containers.

il. Means for coolingl a refrigerator, coinprising a plurality of refrigerant containers, near one end of the refrigerator, disposed ,one above the other and spaced apart, the

ylrlttolii of any container and the top vof the container below being' down vardly inclined, in substantially parallel planes, toward the adjacent end of the refrigerator casing, whereby inclined channels are provided to indnec air flow between .Qaid containers.

, ln testimony whereof lhave hereunto set my nanic.

'FAY 'l`. RODGHRS. 

